The first loan player you can recall?

[highway61]

Who was the first loan signing you can recall at Brighton?
Has the loan system always been in place, albeit with sometimes different rules?

I seem to think Barry bridges was a loan player...must have been many before him though i imagine

 

[wolfie]

Brian Dear from West Ham in the mid to late sixties ? He scored a few goals too.

 

[highway61]

Brian Dear from West Ham in the mid to late sixties ? He scored a few goals too.

remember him yes, could be a few blasts from the past come up

 

[Gwylan]

Brian Dear (as mentioned on the loans thread). Looked a cracking player - shame about the weight problem.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Goalkeeper Ron Fearon, who we got on-loan from Ipswich...This was back when the loan system was used sensibly and you only got someone in when you were seriously in the shit and not filling your team with them for an entire season.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA

 

[poidy]

Being only 26 mine is slightly more recent then the above.

I actually recall two loanees but cant remember which came first. Would have been around 1994, a young Ade Akinbye and Paul Dickov.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Only 18 so mine is Wayne Grey.

 

[BensGrandad]

My immediate thought was Martin Keown but as names appear I will probably say oh yes I remember him. Thinking about it didnt we borrow a goalkeeper called Les or Phil Woolgar from a local side when we had goalkeeper injuries.

 

[8ace]

Colin Pates I think

 

[Mendoza]

Ade Akinbiyi because of his LuaLua type celebration

 

[The Modfather]

Martin Keown

 

[wolfie]

Brian Dear scored 5 in first 4 games - saw 4 of them (1967) He was quite a big name at the time.

 

[severnside gull]

Can't remember anyone before Brian Dear - now a Freeman of the City of London I believe - for a fat little so and so he was pretty quick over 5 yards and had a great shot on him. Would've been different class if he had been fit

 

[cheeseroll]

My immediate thought was Martin Keown but as names appear I will probably say oh yes I remember him. Thinking about it didnt we borrow a goalkeeper called Les or Phil Woolgar from a local side when we had goalkeeper injuries.

I have a recurring flashback that we had John Jackson for this reason, or was it Burridge (doubtful)..

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

First I can remember was Paul Dickov, or possibly Mark Flatts (Platts?) - which one played for us first?

 

[Forster's Armband]

Mark Flatts for me. Although I do remember fondly the Cotterill - Molden loan partnership!

 

[Gwylan]

First I can remember was Paul Dickov, or possibly Mark Flatts (Platts?) - which one played for us first?

Flatts

Mark Flatts for me. Although I do remember fondly the Cotterill - Molden loan partnership!

The Cotterill/Moulden partnership was before Mark Flatts

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Colin Pates I think

Ditto

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

The Cotterill/Moulden partnership was before Mark Flatts

Really? OK then, they are the first I remember and Dickov is just number 4. I'm getting old

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Martin Keown is the firsy loan signing i can remember us making, when he was a young reserve player at Arsenal. We used him up front for a couple of games.